Entry
Requirements: Hungary
is member
of the EU since the 1st
Mai 2004, the Schengen
Agreement (right picture: monument, where the treaty was undersigned in
1985) is
valid since
30th april 2008 for
travelers to Hungary. EU-citizens
may enter without inspection under this treaty. Most
of us forget that the customs control were not changed with
the Schengen treaty. While immigration
controls almost
completely disappeared in
Hungary, despite
of the EU agreement Schengen
passengers are controled sharper than ever before, because of
terrorist hazard, thats what they say.

EU
citizens enjoy up to 90 days visa-free stay
in Hungary, due to the
Schengen Treaty.
Just in case,
you should have an ID-card with your photo. It could be useful, for
example if you are over 65, you may travel free of charge in public
transportation system.
Parents may register their children in their passports.

Why to Budapest?
- for example: VIP-Shopping

The
pedestrian shopping area
at Vörösmarty
square and Váci Street in
the Center of Downtown Budapest is well-known since long. Shortly it
was expanded with the new shopping mile in Deák
Ferenc street. The area was polished
up to shine and shortly the Five-Star-Hotel
Kempinski estalished here.

The Hotel Kempinsky contributed some
famous boutiques to establish their business in Deák
Ferenc street and so arose the pedestrian area
with this new shopping
mile in the very heart of Downtown Budapest. Some
famous boutiques established newly around Kempinsky are for example
Hugo Boss and Mexx. The picture left was taken on a
particularly cold day in January 2012. More and more well-known shops
open here, so Budapest is a new
alternative for those, used to fly to
Milan, London or New York.

Currency:
The best place to you
change your money is Hungary. The
best exchange rate we found on 20/03/2010 in the exchange office on
Erzsébet körút 8 in Budapest, just
opposite the
Boscolo Hotel, once known as "New York Palace", like it became famous.

Cash
will be best exchanged at the the Downtown-exchange
offices in Budapest. At the counter of big banks you
get
significantly less forint for foreigh currencies, since banks are less
flexible to changes on internatinal parquets. Big
banks
adjust the price once a week, small changers sometimes do this
more than once a day.

Credit
cards are
accepted: in many stores and so-called cash
machines (ATMs)
in front of banks and larger shopping centers
- mostly in the entrance area.

PhysiciansSupply: The
new
EU insurance cards are accepted in general for EU-citizen. The best way
is
to ask
your insurance company before the trip.The
addresses of some German and English speaking doctors
and dentists in the
vicinity of our apartments, we share our guests on request with
you. We
can recommend dentists who practice in Germany and
treat their patients in Budapest because
of cost reasons. They
have no interest to take money from tourists. The
training of Hungarian dentists is much more thoroughly than the Germans
and the quality of the materials is at least as good, often better than
in many western countries. The
treatment costs are
significantly lower than in Germany.Your
way to Hungarian dentist:1. Let
your dentist to create
a treatment plan in your country.2. Treatment
plan be approved by your health insurance company.3. The
cost of treatment in Hungary you
must take first, before your fund will be reimbursed in your country. Examination may
cost 20-30 euros. Depending
on the distance from your home to the Hungarian dentist, the
money
you spare on one crown, you may travel twice to Hungary and if your
dentist have to do more threatements, you definitely make a good
business by making your teeth in Hungary.

Your
way to ahe Hungarian Optician is also worthy - you
find them everywhere in Hungary. Reports
from the Hungarian Department of Health (Early 2009) sais: The
population of Hungary will be tested for HIV since 1985. The
study is accepted by the Hungarian people for
granted. Each
year up to 4,000 people volunteered, but they were
anonymous. By
2009, a total of 1,700 cases were registered. This
makes 0.017% of
the total population of Hungary. This
also includes the number of infected foreigners have been registered in
Hungary. About
80% of them are men - a proportion that is roughly
the same in
Western European countries. Among
infected people the proportion
of young heterosexual girls is rapidly
increasing
last time. Noteworthy
is the situation in neighboring state
Ukraine:The
proportion of those infected is extremely high in neighboring Ukraine,
where the problem is ignoiert by the government. Thus,
already more than 500,000 people, infected more than 1% of the 46.2
million Ukrainians. The
population is largely unexplained, there is no government control, the
proportion of infected people among the prostitutes is more than 90%.

Traffic and
public transport in
Hungary

Alcohol
limit: There
is a total ban on alcohol with zero tolerance.Passenger
car: Outside of housing estates lights
have to be turned on.

General Speed
​​Limit: in
village areas 50 kmh, countraside limit is 90 kmh and on
motorways 130 kmh.

Payments
on state highways and other motorwaysYou
should bye vignettes for driving on these motorways and stick
on
your windshield. They allow you to different period of time to drive on
the state motorways for 1, 4, 10 days or
even with monthly or yearly sticker. You
can bye the vignettes in the whole country at border
crossings and filling stations.

Public
Transport in Hungary

Railways -
Hungary has a relatively dense rail network. There
are three international railway stations in Budapest:-
Deli pu. (South
Station) - trains to Lake Balaton,-
Keleti pu. (Eastern)
- Here come the trains from western countries and / or continue in the
Balkans,-
Nyugati pu. (West
Station) - from here the trains mostly in the eastern and northern
parts of the country, but also in Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland and
Ukraine.

Bus - With
the governement company "Volánbusz" you
can reach almost every village in Hungary.

EU
citizens over the Age of 65 can travel for free
- nationwide in the
public transport system. Your permission
may be proven by governement workers, even if they are dressed
civil. The
ride is free in:

2nd Class
waggons in Hungarian trains. For
trains requiring reservation before space or special tickets must be
resolved if there is an office or a ticket automat at the
station,
where you ascend;

In
the buses of the company Volánbusz;

Public
transportation in Budapest (tram, metro, railway, bus and
suburban railway and tram), however tickets must be bought
for the
funicular (Clark Adam Squareto Buda Castle) and the chair lift
(Zugliget to Jánoshegy).

Security
and thieves? -
you can find anywhere!According
to US statistics (June 2010), the airport
of
Dusseldorf in
Germany is the most dangerous place in Europe, a lot less dangerous is
Frankfurt / Main and Munich is almost the safest place in Europe.Usually
the big cities are the most dangerous targets of thieves. An
American study showed the world's most dangerous cities: Barcelona /
Spain (Las Ramblas), Rome, Italy (Colosseum), Prague, Czech Republic
(Charles Bridge, Metro, restaurants and car theft), Madrid / Spain
(flea market El Rastro), Paris, France, Buenos Aires, Argentina,
Amsterdam, Netherlands, Athens, Greece and Hani /
Vietnam. Tourists
in China are the safest because of extreme punishment for the robbery
of tourists. In
Thailand, South America and South Africa there are more and more
attacks on tourist buses. In
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Vindhok / Namibia and South Africa, armed
attacks on tourists pile up, the hotel room can often be cleared,
probably by the hotel staff and the police play with obviously.

- On
the list of the world's most dangerous cities is Budapest not even
mentioned! -

This
is
the result of a consistent police action for many years to curb
the political changes in Hungary during the 1990s in the short term of
the sudden opening of the border, the authorities were not
prepared. Hungary
now is one of the safest countries in Europe.Tips
for your holiday safety: You start at
home, no matter which country you are visiting. Some investments
may prevent many difficulties. Backpacks
and bags should be worn on the body and holded with both hands
if you are crowded. Under
no circumstances are purses and cell phones in his pockets, where they
are easy to steal. It
is also a good advice not to let strangers to start conversation with -
no matter how well dressed and friendly they are!

The
Hungarian mailbox
is red and usually located
in front
of the post
offices or closed to their entrance.

Lost
goods -
there is no office for
this in
Budapest. The Mayor's Office (Polgármesteri Hivatal) of the
district is the right place to announce the loss of anything
important.

Dog:
You have take take the
vaccination card with. The restrictions on beaches and in
restaurants are noted well, as in other countries too. At Lake Balaton
and many lakes dog ban is common.

Public
holidays in Hungary:

1st
January
New Year

15th
March
anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848

Easter
date mobile, Good Friday is working day, Easter Sunday
and Monday are everything closed.

1st
Mai is
Labour
Day

Mother's
Day is the first Sunday in May, not like in other countries.

Whit
Monday is 7 weeks after Easter

20th
August
Boxing Day, National Foundation Day in 1000 AD.

23rd
October Day of Republic,
in memoriam of the uprising in the year 1956

1st
November
All Saints

25th
and
26th December
Christmas

31st
December New
Year's Eve

2.
Hungarian Cuisine

The
globalization, commercialization and privatization
wiped out
many restaurants in Budapest, offering specialized or only Hungarian
food - like in other countries.In
the
travel brochures, the Gundel
Restaurant in the city park is known as the
first place in town
for many decades - but we have different opinion, because of many years
of experience. Family
owned
since 1894, the restaurant of Charles Gundel junior was expropriated
after the war, his heirs were never asked for the return of unlawfully
expropriated properties. Gundel was and is a gastronomically
oriented family of Nuremberg, the pots and pans from Gundel are still
of superior quality. At Gundel they cook soo culinary, that even
Hungarian cooks may hardly recognize, if they
have a national specialty on their dishes. In todays emphasis
on
culinary garnish, there are more and more new restaurants in the city
center, Gundel could not keep up with them - even
if it comes
on the culinary.

Gipsy music
in inns
- We do not recommend the restaurants in the Citadel at the top of
Gellert Hill and Castle Hill or Mátyáspince (Matt
Cellar)
at the Elisabeth Bridge, and others in the highly acclaimed commercial
oriented tourist brochures - restaurants with Gypsy music. We
think, too much foreign exchange rip-off is underway, when the primash
(prime violine player of the gypsy band) fiddles as long into
your
ears, that one's
eardrums hurt and looses his appetite dueto stress situation, so if you
do not
spend timely and enough tips, the primash won´t lef
you alone. If todays gypsy musician complain, why their music is not
very popular today, the reason for it is their own
commercially influenced
intrusiveness. Another reason for their
loosing popularity is the fact, that the excellent
masters of
this kind of music are playing the saddest grief-Hungarian
love-hit from the 1920s - today only known by the oldest
dying out Hungarian generation.

located
at "Ráday utca"
Street 15,
about 2 Minuten away from "Kálvin tér"
Square
(Metro station of the line 3, crossing the line 4
soon).
Traditional Hungarian dishes and barbeque.

Among
the many new
dining establishments in this street, we can
only recommend
this "Voros
Postakocsi" - the only restaurant and sidewalk
café with an old tradition. Last
time, about 150 years ago horse cargo coaches have changed their horses
here. Originally a coffee house since 1970, the only
restaurant with music in this street was restored in 2002,
also converted for disabled people.

Big Market
Hall
- East of the river Danube
at "Szabadsághíd" bridge,
just opposit to hot spa Gellert under the Mont Gellert.
By coming from the North, you find this market hall at the end of
pedestrian walking street "Váci utca", between river Danube
and Kálvin
Square.Open:
Mondays 6-17h
Tue-Fri: 6-18h
Saturdays: 6-14h

If Tourist-Joe
want to cook Hungarian dishes out of really
fresh food than we have to recommend the shop,
market halls, of which there are several in Budapest.
There are also better market halls, with a greater variety of food, but
adjusted especially for tourists is only the Great Market Hall at the
Freedom Bridge. You can get around with your German or English
here, at least at places,
where souvenirs will be chattering.

There is
only one restaurant, called "Fakanál" above at
upper floor, where the
Hungarian cuisineis presented to special
tourist prices, for which one could take dinner in classy
restaurants and not just
here on rare clean camping tables, in
a hurry. What you get in this restaurant,
you can easily cook at home in your
country. The
less the country-specific flavors, which
are inadjacent stalls on the upper
floor will receive:

Downstairs
you may manage your food shopping and on the first elevated
floor you
can get refreshment and taste Hungarian food, like Hurka (well sausage), Langos (hot oatcake) and
more at the snack bars or visit the only restaurant with sitting
places, specialized for the fast going tourist and serving Hungarian
specialities.

You may
about 200 meters to the Big Market Hall from these holiday
apartment BP-23-R and BP-12-Mis
just an other 300 meters
away.

4. Hungarian chocolate

with
french roots - probably better than the original

At the
end of the 19th Century there were in fact
the best Budapest hotels, hired countlesschefs and pastry chefs
from France,
all traditional Hungarian recipes were developed a way,
today you can say, the "more is notbetter".

Coffee
drinking is a noble at Gerbeaud (he was
the most
famous pastry chef) in the own magnificent Gerbaud
building (right pic) at the northern end of
the pedestrian shopping
street "Váci
utca" at
theVörösmartytér.Opened here in
1858 by Henry Kugler, who then was the most famous pastry
chef in the country, Kugler was often copied but never
reached, so
much about the Budapest Kugler, called after
him. Specialties of the house, go
there in the original, refined
setting of the 19th
Century with the best delicacies to pamper original recipe. Ask here
for "Dobostorta", the most
famous creation of Kugler's
successor, Emil Gerbaud, the best cake shop
in the K
and K century before World War
II era. Now Gerbaud
is aworld-famous pilgrimage site in the pastry sweet
tooth. It is up to
you to decide whether the Dobos
cake at
Gerbeaud in Budapest or Sacher Torte at the
Hotel Sacher in Vienna tastes
better. On
the left picture you can
see the three
specialties of the house, from left: Dobos
cake,
Gerbeaud sections andKugler, the most
famous creation of founder Henry Kugler. A
comparison with the mass-produced Mozart ball would
be only
insultation to the Kugler, some experts say. The
Gerbeaud products
will be delivered
by planes in over ten countries today.

5. Sightseeing tour - commercial or
alternative

Commercial city tour -
in a sight-seeing bus with tour
guideOne provides
up to 4
hours long sight seeing tour with tour
guide in buses from Deák
tér
Square, where the cities all three subway lines
intersect. These buses go between Heroes'
Square (left picture) and Castle Hill (next
picture), while it is often in
the traffic
jam, for example, Andrássy út
boulevard in the
street in front of the Heroes'
Square - an
annotated with regret, however, like margin
allowed revenue source for
buses and tour
guides.

Alternative City Tour
- on your own with the tramway line 2

Our recommendation is
not only in good weather is a
non-commercial
tourist attraction of Budapest - a round trip on
the eastern bank of the Danube along the riverside,
with the tram line 2. A trip in Pest, the
eastern part of
Budapest.
When one begins the journey in
the
morning, then the mountains in the
west are still
illuminated by the morning sun.
Afternoon, the sights are on the
opposite
mountain peaks a bit gray. When the sun shines,
everything shines even in high
summer. - This tour provides a good
overview of the main attractions of Budapest and
giving you some initial ideas for further
explorations
of the city.

This tour is
suitable for
active tourists and lasts, depending
on your activity from two hours up to half a
day. For this trip, you should
bye tram tickets,
preferably one day or week pass, or
even the Budapest Card, as well
as information on
the sights of
Budapest. This saves your
guide, you are independent from a
bus
group and you watch whatever you are really interested for.
Whether you start this tour at the
terminal
stations or, for example at the Big Market
Hall, the
Elisabeth or Chain Bridge, it is up to you.

First, it is towards the
south - from the terminus at the Margaret Bridge:

From the tram
you can see the
following sites of
eastern Budapest :Parliament - 1-2stopssouthoftheMargaretBridgeyoudrivearoundthe96 m high
and296mlongParliamentbuilding.
It is one of
the architectural landmarks of Budapest.Chain Bridge -thefirstbridge
over the
Danube river between Regensburg in Bavaria and the Black See.Thebridgearchitect
AdamClark came from England and this
bridge is a perfect copy of two other bridges in Great
Britain. The Hammersmith bridge had the grand opening in 1827.
This bridge was rebuilt in 1887 and is probablay one of the
most beautiful bridges on earth. The second chain bridge was
built over the Themes near London at Marlow and it opened in
1832. The architect was William Clark and his brother Adam
Clark was the architect in Budapest. Although all the three
bridges have the same construction type, they say only in
Budapest Chainbridge, because chaines are holding this bridge.
They say suspension bridge in England, because the two bridges
are pending on those chaines.South of
the Parliament we have a
never ending panorama view, first
on the Castle
Hill. The sights in the
western district
of Buda, in order:

Fishermen's
Bastion,

Matthias Church

Royal
Palace - the building of
the castle was started after the
Mongol invasion in the
early 13th Century. The king received
his
castle in Baroque
style in the period of Maria
Theresa, Empress of Austria and Queen of
Hungary. The
palace now houses the Hungarian National Gallery.
Including walks,
this visit may take you 1-2 hours, if you're already on top of
the castle.

Gellert
Hill - On top of that is the Citadel, which
were removed
in 1849 built by the
Habsburgs against the rebellious Hungary and
its military installations after the Compromise of
1867 only
became redundant in 1904. In the wall systems is
now a
culinary operation with disco.

Drive
to the terminus at the
new cultural center
with the National Theatre and Music Hall on the
eastern bank
of the river Danube, if you are interested
in
modern architecture or a ticket. for an
audience.

Then the trip back
to North:Get over from Gellert
Hill on the Freedom
Bridge. - Up to the era,
soviet ruled red power occupied Budapest from 1948, the
Liberty Bridge was called Franz
Josef bridge. It was a gift from the Emperor to
Budapest and for the sake of
his wife, Lissa, the one in Germany called falsely and
jokingly Sissi. - Closed
to the bridge is the Great Market
Hall, a brick building built in 1896, one of
the tourist attractions of Budapest. The best time
to visit is the late morning. Since fruits and
vegetables are fresh
for the purchase and on the upper floor the
only restaurant "Fakanál" (=wooden spoon)
is already open. - Forthe
activetourist
we suggest you takethefoodstallsthat
offermostlygenuinelocalspecialties of
Hungarian cuisine.

After
a meal and refreshment in
the market hall, you make
your the best ride away to the
northern terminus at
Margaret Bridge. If someone wants to go to
the south again, you
can memorize the Parliament and
the said landmarks again. Perharps for an
other
refreshment in the Big Market Hall.

6.
purchasing ideas

Even
though the red era is over, in Budapest you can still get a
bargain...

Many
western brand products are cheaper in Hungary - for
example
medications such as aspirin, brand underwear shooter and triumph or
down-bedding Billerbeck. Note the shape of the
pillow. They
are rectangular in Hngary, sized 70x90 cm, slightly more practical
than the German 80x80 cm inlets. Car drivers should
take the
pillows and the blankets from Hungary, goose down there are abundant
and cheaper than in Germany. A
not very long section of the street "Deák Ferenc utca"
(left pic) between
Vörösmarty tér and Deák
tér, where the
Hotel Kempinski has been since a few years now, was completely
refurbished recently. Here are some brand shops, many
German
fly to Milan or New York to bye these products a
little
cheaper than in New York.

Gift
classics - Traditional gifts and souvenirs from Budapest are hand
painted china from Herend (upper pic), Pécs (Zsolnay
company) or
Hollókő. Other souvenirs include pottery,
embroidery and
doll in the costume look.

Lace
and embroidery - Halas tip is always white and color from
Mezőkövesd (right picture). The embroidery of
Buzsák are
"Veza": blue-red, "rates": blue-black or "boszorkányos":
bright
colorful. An attraction of Buzsák the women sit in
groups
as they stitch in fine weather on the road.

Paprika - rose sharp and noble sweet are the fine
countrywide typical brand products
basis of the Hungarian kitchen. All other capsicum products
how
e.g. "Spice Paprika" are mass products and you can get them
worldwide in any supermarket.

Inlaid vegetables
- one should choose after own taste market stalls. Leaven
cucumbers (= kovászos Uborka) are a countrywide typical
variant
of hydrochloric Dill cucumbers which one in supermarkets gets only with
borage chemistry, like Spreewald cucumbers are since
Reunification.

Pick Salami - from
Szeged and Herz salami from
Budapest were famous once upon a time, when they were produced from
donkey and horsemeat for days burnt incense and afterwards many weeks
in drafts dried. Nowadays commonly principle prepared from
pigmeat
and original taste more or less well imitated with
spices. The Herz Broders were German original, they produced
with
their original German recipe until nationalization. -
Some
years ago Pick from Szeged bought Herz salami factory and produces more
imitation than the originally Tyrolean salami with a Hungarian
Nuance. Recipe and manufacture procedure were once taught by
Austrian soldiers to butcher Pick of Szeged. The special these
salamis are: Hungarian spice mixture, smoking after
old Tiroler
Montain method and long air drying can afford in Germany no company
more.

About salami
- that should be well known: Hungarian
salami remains 1-2 years long freshly in air but you should
never
refrigerate them. At cold temperatures shrinks the meat by
squeezing the salt out ofthe salami in few days and
the taste
is just over. That is the reason, why Hungarian
butchery
products disappeared from larger supermarkets in western
countries. The rules
were made by Brussels
bigwig party bosses with a whole in their head. Todays salami
products from Hungary are made new way - they do not keep very
long fresh and because of this, the are only sausages, even if
the written word on them is salami.

Foie gras -
an industrial product, thatsufferedmuch after it was
sold expensive for a long time. You may get them served in many country
restaurants much cheaper than bye it in the can in tourist
shops.How healthy
naturally liver and foie gras are grown and
how they differ from each other, you see in
the video to the right>>>

Barackpálinka (= apricot brandy) and Szilvapálinka (= plum brandy) is best
bought
from roadside or farmers, since they may
produce their own products - forget the supermarkets.

Hungarian
wine The
wine is a tropical plant that needs to mature a lot of
sunshine. She survives just in the southern half of Germany -
that
is about the Northern part of Hungary. Best known is the
outbreak
wine of Tokaj, from the so-called cold chamber in the north-east part
of the country, where there are south-facing slopes with a sunny
exposure - just like North of the Arctic Circle anywhere.

Even
here can be produced high quality, but it requires a lot of art and a
special production method. For the outbreak of the winery,
wine by
using dry berries in the Christmas season, so they startfermentationagain.After decades of experimentation,
this
method was the time of the French Sun King. The scent of his
famous king was persuaded that he now gets to taste liquid
gold. Louis XIV was allowed to taste the Tokay outbrake wine
and
he promptly appointed it to the queen of all
wines. Until the
privatization through the political revolution of 1989, the
Tokaj outbreak wine was still syrupy, honey-sweet as ice wine
and
produced only under exceptional circumstances as a spectacle with the
wood-destroying fungus Botrytis (destroys the human cell walls). Since
the new owners of the vineyard, like Axa Insurance from Germany and
other investment speculants, the outbreak wine tastes slightly bitter,
more and more like Wermuth, and also getting thinner and less
sweet. If this is to be the result of traditional
manufacturing
manner, as it is written on the labels, then the Sun
King would
have never praised it to be the queen of all wines.

The
method of manufacturing the outbreak wine is comparable to the
production of sherry wine in Spain, because they also mix the new wine with the older wine. However, there is a significant difference:
the Tokaj is made from high quality grapes and never with sugar in the
barrels - which is strictly controlled. The Tokay result with
about 16% alcohol content is comparable only with the German ice
wine. In the production of sherry wine inferior grape
varieties
are used. So that the alcohol content in wine Sherry still
rises
to only 12-13% is added to brandy. It is remarkable, that the Sherry
wine is made with lots of sugar, but the alcohol is still
poorly
grown up to 12-13%. This indicates so much lab work, it is
clear
that the Sherry wine is made behind the scenes in secret. -
The
question we have left to the sherry lovers: what kind of booze is mixed
with high-proof brandy and sugar in sunny Spain, so that the alcohol
content in sherry wine isn´t more, than 13% achieved if our
common Germany wine often has up to 13% and more alcohol?

By
nature, recommended wines from Hungary without a lot of bells and
whistles - we know a lot. Highlight the Portuguese,
Pinot
Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon and other red varieties popular in the
southernmost wine region Villány are from the bench or make
wine
cellars Polgár. What leads you better, bright red
or fine
and mild, you should try it yourself. Except
Villány we can
recommend with conviction, two other also South and sunny vineyards:
Szekszárd (southeast of Lake Balaton, mainly red wine) and
Hajós (in the south of the Danube, in addition to red and
white
wine), because the quality is still made from
grapes originates.

Natural remedies from medicinal herbs - are much cheaper in Hungary than
in other western countries.

Propolis products are active
agents of pollen and honey, and in Hungary very
favorable.SHOPPING MILES

Váci utca - in
the pedestrian
area of downtown Budapest, with fine
diningestablishments. In many fine boutiques latest
international fashion and
traditional folkart is offered.

Deák Ferenc
utca - at metro line intersection in Downtown
at five star Kempinski hotel. A new shopping
mile with brand articles of famous designers, like Bulgari, Mexx and
more.

BOULEVARD
ROADS

Kossuth Lajos utca is only a
short
part the arrow-straight path from the
Eastern Railway
Station to the Elizabeth Bridge over the river Danube.

Nagykorut or the Great Ring Road can
be
found under different names on the map -
from the South: "Ferenc
korut", "Jozsef korut", "Erzsébet korut",
"Terézkorut" and "Szent István korut". The
Nagykorut is a semi-circular, about 5 km
long boulevard between the bridges Petőfi in the
south and Margaret in the
north. Really
recommended for tourists are only the northern parts
of the
track from "Blaha Lujza tér"
Square to Margaret
Bridge (Margit híd).
Their names are.

MARKET HALLThere are approx. 20 Market Halls in Budapest. The
Big Market Hall (built 1897) at the
southern end of Váci utca street,
between Kalvin tér and the
Danube adjusted
particularly well to tourists. Here you can
find all concentrated flavors of
the country.

GROCERY
STORESthe
big shopping centers Tesco, Auchan,
Cora, saving € Others have long opening
times, some with 24/7 opening hours and are closed
only on a
few holidays a year. Supermarkets
are larger than
german supermarkets. Tourists can waste here their
time
really, while smaller shops may provide all travel
needs at
similar
prices. "Csemege" and "CBA" are the survivors after the political
turnover. The German REWE group is active in
Hungary with many branches Penny and
also
Edeka with Plus on many places. Lidl is
growing and
spreading all over the country,
recently appeared Aldi
too. Small mini shops in the city
center
are usually specializes in
food and daily necessities,
and often
have 24/7 non-stop openings.

MUSIC
ENTHUSIASTSfrom all genres get
their
goal
in the Petőfi Sándor utca street,
opposite "Szervita tér" Square in Downtown at
"Rózsavölgyi", also
called Rosenthaler. Here one
can buy CDs and vinyl records from all over
the world and even you may order anyone and
let it
send to all over the
world - still at an
affordable price.

ANTIQUESthe
times for big bargains are long
gone - and if your eye
catches something, then
you ought to think about the export permit and the
custom
regularies must be considered - preferably
upon arrival
in the country.

7.
Warning of rip-off merchants

It
sounds like
rip-offLook
around everywhere, where the most tourists go around, confidence
trickser are always there.

The big
bird was shot by this store on the right picture
>>>

In
contrast, the score in the five-star hotels are usually well protected,
better than the normal tourist anywhere, so in
Budapest too. One
of the most popular Hungarian souvenir is the famous bitters
by Zwack at the picture on the left. As
a Budapest expert, we wanted to find out, the best place to
bye it - so we started to search Budapest for Unicum.

...in
the pedestrian zone of Váci utca, house no. 48. The
price for one liter bottle here is 7.850, - HUF (about 27,50
€). The
southern stretch of Vaci utca, between
the Market Hall and Elizabeth Bridge was built
lately, this is not a really part of the
traditional pedestrian shopping street. The
shops here are largely run by new speculators and is well known because
of their arrogant art of lure tourists into a trap. These
part of the pedestrian walkway, south of Elisabeth bridge
you´d better avoid. In
second place among the con men landed the Great Market Hall Budapest
with 6.800, - (approx. € 23.80) for a liter bottle.
The unit price is obviously here, where the price for paprika and goose
liver much mischief, that is how tourist rip-off operates. In
some country restaurants you can get foi gras cheaper on your dish,
than at the Market Hall in cans.

The
price of 1 liter Unicum in Budapest varies from normal to outrageous,
to our knowledge of 13 - to 27,50 € for the same size, 1 liter
bottle. Here
are some more price examples for a liter bottle:- Beauty: 4800,
- HUF (€ 16.85). Beauty
is a delicatess grocery store, just opposit to the Hungarian National
Museum,
Adresse: Museum korut 37-
Lehel tér Market Hall: 3900, - HUF (13.70 €) in
several stores, but in the basement area at a Chinese stand, we found
the best price in whole Budapest: 3.700, - HUF (about 13, -
€).

Map
of the suburban and underground railway lines of Budapest -
The abbreviation of the green HÉV lines means suburban
railway and the underground railway in Budapest
is called Metro, like in New York. The
cars of each train lines are painted in the same color as the lines on
the map. The
existing three Metro lines are called yellow (No. 1), red (No.
2) and blue (No. 3) lines. There are different suburban train lines,
but the all are green painted, like on the following map.

The metro lines of
Budapest:

The yellow line 1 connects Vorsmarty Square in Downtown pedestrian area
with Heroes Place and furthermore the City Parc.

The
red line 2 connets Eastern Railway Station with Southern Railway
Station.
- At East Railway Station the trains arrive from Western countries and
also from Serbia and Romania. Trains from Southern
Railway Station go to Lake Balaton and surrounding area.

The blue line 3 connects South and North in Pest, on the eastern part
Airportof
Budapest. The last station in the South is where airport busses arrive
with tourists, who want to go into the City.

The construction
of a fourth line is well advanced and will soon pass. Line
4 will connect the Eastern Railwas Station with the "Kelenfoldi"
Railway Station - and will probably make Easter Railway
Station
redundant - once upon the time.

Ticket
prices in 2015 - for
the use of public transport in Budapest.
Tickets
are available at the box office at the entrance of almost all subway
stations,EU
citizens over 65 years are free - identity card or passport is
required to check birthday.

Our
airport transfer for small groups of up to 3 people per car for 24, -
€ fixed price for our guests. This
is a good price for
groups of 2 or 3 people.
Please
arrange the meeting with our personal by e-mail. They
await you at the airport and drive you to the apartment, where
you get the apartment key.

Our
high capacity van drives for 24, - € for the first 3 persons
and
€ 9 each additional, up to 9 people in Budapest from the
airport to the apartment. Please
arrange the meeting with our personal by e-mail. They
await you at the airport and drive you to the apartment, where
you get the apartment key.

Other companies

Taxi
from the airport for 4 persons may cost at least 20 to 25 €
upon traffic flow to the
nearest apartment. - You
should have enough forint with, because taxi drivers can calculate
as quick as you will never follow, faster than a computer and
they never make a mistake of their own. Try
to arrange a fixed price to your destination before drive.

Airport
Minibus / Large-shuttle - travels up to 10 people for about 12
€ per person to the desired addresses everywhere in Budapest.
But at first
there is an unknown long waiting period until the bus is full, then is
driven to the individual addresses, the last guest has bad luck and
goes with to all addresses - and that takes ....

Public
Transportation

From
the baggage collection you roll your bags about 100 feet to the
terminus of the airport bus line 200E. Here you must have tickets, you
may bye it at
a ticket automat - but only for
Forint and the airport change office is a bit too expensive.15
minutes drive with the airport bus to the underground station
"Köbánya".

Here
you can buy all the tickets for the public transport system of
Budapest, but only for forints.After
switched over to metro line 3 at "Kőbánya
Kispest",
you are going to town center. This metro line
starts in the morning at 4:30 and 23:10 last. Driving
time from the Metro terminus to the central metro station at
"Deák tér" Square is 16
minutes. Opening
hours of the ticket counter at the metro
station "Kőbánya
Kispest":Monday
to Saturdays 6:00 to 20:00 O´Clock.Flying
back from Budapest
for
example you take the metro line 3 at central
station "Deák tér"
Square between 4:45 AM
and 23:25 PM and go to the
station "Kőbánya Kispest". Driving time
is 16 minutes during the day and is different because of
different lengths of waiting times at subway stops.Now
comes the waiting time between metro and airport bus - this can take up
to 15 minutes.In "Kőbánya
Kispest" you step into the airport bus (No. 200E) and your bus stops
some times, but waits a bit at Terminal 1. Driving time to
Terminal 2 is approx. 30 minutes.

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